1. The Social Impact of the War Section 5

2. African Americans • Economic Discrimination • Substandard living conditions at time of war: • African Americans = 50% • Whites = 14 % • Equality • Double V campaign • CORE

3. “You know we don’t serve coloreds here, the man repeated…. We ignored him and just stood there inside the door, staring at what we had come to see ---- the German POW’s who were having lunch at the counter. The people of Salina would serve these enemy soldiers and turn away black American GI’s.” • Lloyd Brown – American Soldier in Kansas

4. Mexican Americans • Bracero Program • U.S faced a shortage of farmers • 200,000 Mexicans came to the country to work these farms • Crowded conditions would cause racial tension

5. Native Americans • 25,000 serve in war • 23,000 migrate from reservations to cities to work • Many did not return to reservation and it brought a sense of losing their roots

6. Japanese Americans • Japanese Internment • War Relocation Authority • Removed anyone with Japanese ancestry into confined camps in remote areas of the U.S (over 110,000 people) • Very close to the conditions of concentration camps

7. Japanese Americans in Military • Accepted none until 1943 • 17,000 Nisei served • 442nd Regional Combat Team has most medals for bravery in U.S history (all Nisei)

8. Nisei Nisei insignia Nisei in France

9. Working Women • Gained jobs during the war • After the war lost twice as many jobs as men did • They were expected to quit leave as soon as the men returned